Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB
$4,999
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| Component | Selection | Price | Where | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine | Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB 128 GB unified · 546 GB/s | $4,999 | eBay | Buy |
| Total | $4,999 | |||
What this build runs
The most precise quant that fits, at 32k context. Estimates, not measurements.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @32k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | fits | 93.7 GB | 58k103k with q8 cache | 22tok/sest. | 49 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q3_K_XL | fits | 85.4 GB | 256k | 7tok/sest. | 51 tok/s | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | fits | 78.7 GB | 101k187k with q8 cache | 18tok/sest. | 138 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 30.0 GB | 256k | 11tok/sest. | 104 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | Q6_K | fits | 95.8 GB | 40k64k with q8 cache | 24tok/sest. | 245 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 29.6 GB | 256k | 12tok/sest. | 104 tok/s | – |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 61.0 GB | 128k | 49tok/sest. | 395 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 80.6 GB | 256k | 43tok/sest. | 589 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | Q5_K_M | fits | 91.2 GB | 256k | 22tok/sest. | 247 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q8_0 | fits | 34.5 GB | 256k | 10tok/sest. | 93 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q6_K | fits | 94.1 GB | 100k159k with q8 cache | 32tok/sest. | 272 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.8 GB | 256k | 56tok/sest. | 744 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 29.6 GB | 256k | 12tok/sest. | 104 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | Q8_0 | fits | 26.6 GB | 256k | 42tok/sest. | 662 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q5_K_M | fits | 84.3 GB | 94k128k with q8 cache | 11tok/sest. | 91 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 35.8 GB | 256k | 56tok/sest. | 744 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 80.6 GB | 256k | 53tok/sest. | 701 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 32.1 GB | 198k | 30tok/sest. | 389 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 384k | 12tok/sest. | 110 tok/s | – |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | UD-Q6_K_XL | fits | 33.6 GB | 256k | 60tok/sest. | 849 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 12.8 GB | 128k | 66tok/sest. | 556 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q8_0 | fits | 49.7 GB | 1024k | 61tok/sest. | 642 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 34.0 GB | 256k | 33tok/sest. | 342 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 41.2 GB | 40k | 8tok/sest. | 65 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 256k | 26tok/sest. | 242 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 10.7 GB | 256k | 33tok/sest. | 301 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 128k | 12tok/sest. | 110 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q8_0 | fits | 30.4 GB | 128k | 11tok/sest. | 111 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 41.2 GB | 128k | 8tok/sest. | 74 tok/s | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q8_0 | fits | 80.6 GB | 80k128k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 35 tok/s | – |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 19.2 GB | 256k | 18tok/sest. | 167 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 20.4 GB | 40k | 17tok/sest. | 151 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 128k | 26tok/sest. | 248 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 40k | 26tok/sest. | 248 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 21.5 GB | 16k | 16tok/sest. | 151 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 6.0 GB | 256k | 63tok/sest. | 564 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 256k | 26tok/sest. | 240 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 14.5 GB | 128k | 24tok/sest. | 228 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 9.3 GB | 128k | 39tok/sest. | 379 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 10.7 GB | 125k | 80tok/sest. | 1238 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q6_K | fits | 10.9 GB | 128k | 33tok/sest. | 262 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 1.7 GB | 32k | 380tok/sest. | 2696 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 1.9 GB | 256k | 288tok/sest. | 2533 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 2.5 GB | 256k | 191tok/sest. | 1207 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 3.4 GB | 128k | 125tok/sest. | 1014 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| MiniCPM5 2B openbmb | Q8_0 | fits | 4.6 GB | 128k | 87tok/sest. | 606 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 5.3 GB | 128k | 73tok/sest. | 686 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 5.3 GB | 32k | 73tok/sest. | 629 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking JetBrains | Q8_0 | fits | 13.3 GB | 128k | 67tok/sest. | 894 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| granite vision 4.1 4b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 6.7 GB | 128k | 56tok/sest. | 440 tok/s | chat, coding |
| granite 4.2 3b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 6.9 GB | 128k | 54tok/sest. | 461 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Kimi VL A3B Moonshot AI | mlx-8bit | fits | 18.3 GB | 128k | 50tok/sest. | 672 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 27.0 GB | 128k | 44tok/sest. | 690 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 10.1 GB | 128k | 36tok/sest. | 296 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.6V Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 11.4 GB | 128k | 31tok/sest. | 206 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 12.7 GB | 128k | 28tok/sest. | 262 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Z.ai | mlx-8bit | fits | 13.0 GB | 64k | 27tok/sest. | 206 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 256k | 26tok/sest. | 240 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 21.4 GB | 128k | 16tok/sest. | 142 tok/s | chat |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | fits | 65.8 GB | 64k | 15tok/sest. | 99 tok/s | chat |
| GLM 4.6V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | fits | 72.1 GB | 128k | 14tok/sest. | 99 tok/s | chat |
| Devstral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 128k | 12tok/sest. | 112 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2506 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 40k | 12tok/sest. | 112 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 40k | 12tok/sest. | 112 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2509 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 29.1 GB | 128k | 12tok/sest. | 110 tok/s | – |
| granite 4.2 30b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 37.8 GB | 128k | 9tok/sest. | 85 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 80.6 GB | 80k128k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 35 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral AI | Q5_K_M | fits | 94.0 GB | 37k69k with q8 cache | 4tok/sest. | 20 tok/s | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 380.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 149.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 157.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | won't run | 135.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.7 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 213.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.1 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 423.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.2 Z.ai | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 437.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Z.ai | Q8_0 | won't run | 749.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.1 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 581.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 137.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 137.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 123.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 251.3 GB | – | – | – | – |